From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@...>
Date: 2010-01-15T13:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems: bad urls

Excerpts from Luis Lavena's message of Thu Jan 14 14:45:10 +0100 2010:
> On Jan 14, 6:16 am, Phillip Gawlowski <p...@thimian.com> wrote:
> > On 14.01.2010 09:56, Marc Weber wrote:
> >
> > > So what's happening here?
> >
> > Gems are hosted on gemcutter.org by now, not RubyGems.
> >
> 
> gems.rubyforge.org == gemcutter.org
> 
> "Hosted" has nothing to do with "downloading"
> 
> The above URLs:
> 
> http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem
> 
> Are simple redirects to Amazon S3/CDN hosted files:
> 
> 
> curl --head http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem
> 
> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:42:11 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5
> Phusion_Passenger/2.2.5
> X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 2.2.5
> X-Rack-Cache: miss
> Location: http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem
> Status: 302
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> ====
> 
> If Nix cannot resolve over redirects, then you will need to indicate
> the CDN location.

It can. However shouldn't I be able to download this gem by copy pasting
this url into any browser?
http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem
-> http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem
Fine. Follow the next redirect as well, please:

marc i%curl -I http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/bmabey-fakefs-0.1.1.1.gem                         /home/marc nixos   
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
x-amz-request-id: 931D4C5FBECF8B78
x-amz-id-2: 10cd/tT0szcqveVz+f+uInM31pZaLG6T/wwI0SIK1i/SNtXQbYXuVIDzerqYGsZj
Content-Type: application/xml
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:37:17 GMT
Server: AmazonS3
X-Cache: Error from cloudfront
X-Amz-Cf-Id: fc3f620e9e4e8aab9a72ee9d6aed8ee8b50c555b52119dfe1863dda7a76c795fa31da7b5e6d9b222,230ac8a9dcbf5ae73328942d7d8a086af9191c7b0cf2ab8e1d711c4d078f43ed628c2cd02e5bc1eb
Via: 1.0 a2289d8b15b881db1c42086062568883.cloudfront.net:11180 (CloudFront), 1.0 3aa04125cfbe212eb3783a1b1caebdb5.cloudfront.net:11180 (CloudFront)
Connection: close

So access is forbidden. Thus the link is broken.
Redirection does work fine for many other .gem packages.

Marc Weber